Gorn, et al.
©2005
ISBN: 0-321-21642-3
Soft cover

This popular reader consists of a variety of primary sources grouped around central themes in American history.

• Each chapter focuses on a particular problem in American history.
• Introductions, documents, and study questions prompt students to think critically.
• End-of-chapter pedagogy, including Postscript Questions, a Defining Terms section, Probing the Sources, Interpreting the Sources, and Additional Readings, helps students analyze and think critically about the sources.
• Strong coverage on the voices of minorities and women, such as excerpts from Olaudah Equiano's diary of slavery and Sarah Osborn's life and times as a recent widow in colonial America (Ch. 4).
• In-depth discussion of the making of the Constitution in 1787, with particularly rich source material about the many controversies surrounding the Constitution, including slavery (Ch. 6).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Contact and Conquest: The Meeting of Old and New Worlds
2. Dying and Surviving in Virginia
3. The Puritan Experience in New England
4. Eighteenth Century American Voices
5. What Kind of Revolution? Justifications for Rebellion
6. Forming a More Perfect Union: The Constitution of 1787 versus Friends, Foes, and the Disfranchised
7. Shouting for Glory: Camp Meeting Christianity Described, Decried, and Defended
8. Living and Dying in Bondage: The Slave Conspiracy of 1822
9. Remembering the Alamo
10. Women in Antebellum America
11. A House Divided: Free Labor, Slave Labor
12. A War Within a War: The New York City Draft Riots
13. Reconstruction and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan